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IMAGES – Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1559

Public Invitation to participate in Linz Adagia (EN) / (DE) Einladung an die Öffentlichkeit zur Teilnahme an Linz Adagia

{(Einladung an die Öffentlichkeit zur Teilnahme an Linz Adagia – Deutsche Übersetzung, siehe unterhalb} Public Invitation to participate: In the public spaces of Linz –  August 23rd to September 5th 2014 Linz Adagia is an art project by Darryl Georgiou and Jeremy Hunt to create a contemporary interpretation in the Square and public spaces of Linz based … Continue reading →

Dumb and Dumber: In Praise of Follies (Sam Jacob – Strange Harvest)

A piece I wrote for the Gwangju Folly project, curated by Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz and Eui Young Chun featuring Ai Weiwei, Do Ho Suh, Eyal Weizman, Raqs Media Collective, David Adjaye, Rem Koolhaas and more. The catalogue is available here Off-season, the Scheveningen boardwalk is a very lonely place. All of its seaside resort jollity is blasted … Continue reading →

Darryl Georgiou – Work in Progress – A Triptych – from the minds eye, August 2014

Ars Electronica / Futurelab residency – ‘work in progress’… Project: Linz Adagia – Erasmus Proverbs (Blue Cloak) Folly of the World A Triptych – from the minds eye… (images that although seemingly old or original.. have never existed) 1) From heaven to earth 2) Between a stone and a shrine (Between a rock and a … Continue reading →

KEY – Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter de Brueghel, 1559

LIST of Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter de Brueghel,1559

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, c.1469-1536 published books of proverbs in, Collectanea Adagiorum, 1500, and Adagiorum chiliades, 1508 (Thousands of proverbs), which were a European best seller, and influenced Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting, Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World), 1559 – whose subject was the folly … Continue reading →

Popular Sayings – Johannes van Doetecum,1577 British Library Magazine.

Popular Sayings – The interpretation of 23 proverbs depicted in a 16th-century print. by An Van Camp © British Library Magazine. Spring / Summer 2013

Pieter Brueghel I. Twelve proverbs on wooden plates,1558-60

Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s. Twelve proverbs on wooden plates,1558-60, offer a combination of wit and moral instruction through a depiction of the visual allegories of daily life. The panel containing the twelve plates that had once been individual dining plates each portraying a proverb. The legends were added later to communicate the meaning of the … Continue reading →

Linz Adagia – Contemporary Proverbs

Linz Adagia is a public literary and artistic project, to create a new series of proverbs invented by the public to express contemporary folly on a local or global scale. Small scale Tableaux Vivants will be choreographed as  a public event in the squares and public spaces of Linz filmed as a documentary, and artistic digital project.  The work … Continue reading →

Desiderius Erasmus

Erasmus Adagia: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, c.1469-1536 ,published an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs entitled Collectanea Adagiorum,  in Paris in 1500, with around eight hundred entries. By 1508, Erasmus had expanded the collection titled Adagiorum chiliades (Thousands of proverbs) to over 3,000 items, commentaries and essays on political and moral topics. The work continued to expand up to … Continue reading →